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Poecilia
Poecilia is a genus of fishes in the family Poeciliidae of the order Cyprinodontiformes. These livebearers are native to fresh, brackish and salt water in the Americas, and some species in the genus are euryhaline. A few have adapted to living in waters that contain high levels of toxic hydrogen sulfide (H 2S) and a population of P. mexicana lives in caves (other populations of this species are surface-living).
60 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 75 known species
Guppy
speciesPoecilia reticulata
Sailfin Molly
speciesPoecilia latipinna
Shortfin Molly
speciesPoecilia mexicana
Common Molly
speciesPoecilia sphenops
Yucatán Molly
speciesPoecilia velifera
Guaru
speciesPoecilia vivipara
Endler's Livebearer
speciesPoecilia wingei
Pacific Molly
speciesPoecilia butleri
Mangrove Molly
speciesPoecilia orri
Opaline Molly
speciesPoecilia nelsoni
Amazon Molly
speciesPoecilia formosa
Gill's Molly
speciesPoecilia gillii
Guppy × Endler's Livebearer
hybridPoecilia reticulata × wingei
Cauca Molly
speciesPoecilia caucana
Chisel Toothcarp
speciesPoecilia scalpridens
Vandepoll's Molly
speciesPoecilia vandepolli
Liberty Molly
speciesPoecilia salvatoris
Scarlet Livebearer
speciesPoecilia picta
Pearly Molly
speciesPoecilia perugiae
Balsas Molly
speciesPoecilia maylandi
Black-barred Limia
speciesPoecilia nigrofasciata
Sulphur Molly
speciesPoecilia sulphuraria
Cuban Lima
speciesPoecilia vittata
Jandira Toothcarp
speciesPoecilia sarrafae
Sulfur limia
speciesPoecilia sulphurophila
elegant molly
speciesPoecilia elegans
Topknot Molly
speciesPoecilia kykesis
Two-spot Live Bearer
speciesPoecilia parae
Tamesí Molly
speciesPoecilia latipunctata
Honduran Molly
speciesPoecilia hondurensis
Amazon Guppy
speciesPoecilia bifurca
Striped Limia
speciesPoecilia zonata
Holland's Toothcarp
speciesPoecilia hollandi
Citric-scale Molly
speciesPoecilia limantouri
Hispaniola molly
speciesPoecilia hispaniolana
Grand Cayman Molly
speciesPoecilia caymanensis
Tiburon Peninsula limia
speciesPoecilia dominicensis
Yellowtip Molly
speciesPoecilia thermalis
Shortfin × Liberty Molly
hybridPoecilia mexicana × salvatoris
Blackbelly Limia
speciesPoecilia melanogaster
Bicolor Molly
speciesPoecilia catemaconis
Yaguajal Limia
speciesPoecilia yaguajali
Blackbanded limia
speciesPoecilia melanonotata
Poecilia araguaiensis
speciesPoecilia araguaiensis
Plain limia
speciesPoecilia immaculata
Few-rayed Limia
speciesPoecilia pauciradiata
Miragoane limia
speciesPoecilia miragoanensis
Tiger Limia
speciesPoecilia islai
Curipe Toothcarp
speciesPoecilia koperi
Maraval Toothcarp
speciesPoecilia boesemani
Marcellino Toothcarp
speciesPoecilia marcellinoi
Trinidad Guppy
speciesPoecilia obscura
Maracaibo Toothcarp
speciesPoecilia wandae
Ornate Limia
speciesPoecilia ornata
Venezuela Molly
speciesPoecilia heterandria
Poecilia montana
speciesPoecilia montana
Garnier's Limia
speciesPoecilia garnieri
Blotched Limia
speciesPoecilia fuscomaculata
Rivas's Limia
speciesPoecilia rivasi
Poecilia pallida
speciesPoecilia pallida
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 91189.